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Report of the Medical Officer of Health
At the present time inspections are being made to ascertain
the number of rooms to which these Regulations would apply but
so far very few have been discovered, and in many of these the
occupation as a sleeping room has been discontinued as the occupier
had other available rooms in the house. I have personally inspected
most of the cases reported by the Sanitary Inspectors, but in none
of those visited were the infringements of the Regulations of a
serious character.
In this Borough very few of the houses erected in recent
years have basements, and it is chiefly in houses which have been
made down so as to become tenement houses that there is any
separate letting of basements.
I shall be able to lay before the Public Health Committee
early in the present year a report of the inspection of the Borough
in this respect and also the result of any action taken.
Sanitary Operations.
The Table of Sanitary operations shows in detail the amount
and nature of the work carried out by the Sanitary Inspectors
during the year.
The number of complaints received and attended to was 2,076,
compared with 1789, in 1910, 1,692 in 1909, 1,645 in 1908, and
1,836 in 1907.
There was an increase in Clapham, North and South, Putney,
Streatham, Balham, Tooting and Springfield Wards, and a decrease
in Southfield Ward, while Fairfield Ward is the same, compared
with the previous year.
Seven of these complaints were made to the London
County Council, and these were at once attended to.